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Praises

We have now been in our new home for 3 months and I kept meaning to send out an update but have been waiting until Vic had his work permit so that I could share that good news. However, Vic is STILL waiting on his work permit which we need to apply for more permanent visas (we are currently on tourist visas). There has been more communication and progress on the work permit this past week so we are hopeful it will come through soon. Once the work permit is in hand Vic will travel back to the US to pick up his visa and then when he returns we can apply for dependent visas for the boys and I. All of this needs to happen before November 11th when our tourist visa is up. In the meantime we are trying to make this place feel like home again and working on getting into good routines. We have been meeting up with a local friend who we’ve discipled off and on over the past 16 years and have had the pleasure of fellowship with him and his new girlfriend too.  We’ve also had some random encounters with some of Vic’s old students (one at McDonalds and another was the boys taxi/uber driver one evening).  Vic has also been putting his local language skills to use by helping with translation at the foreign service. Vic has also started studying counselling with a heart to serve those who are serving cross culturally. In the new year we will both begin a course together that we hope can be used as a ministry to those around us.

 

Prayer Request
  • Pray that we have a nice home, close to friends, with lots of room to host (come visit)
  • Baseball (thankful for the current team but please pray for a youth team to form) 
  • More local friends for all of us .
  • Vic’s work permit and all our visas to come through 
  • Opportunities to serve 
  • General adjustment (culture, food, shopping, language, weather, community) we feel like oldnewbies - Elijah, Gideon and Timothy to grow more deeply in love with HIM and to to know HIM intimately.

 

As of September, 2025